Valery, a video blogger from Crimea, published a video titled "
Putin is Andrei Panin" two years ago, in which he demonstrated a number of arguments in support of the hypothesis that the death of Russian
theatre and film actor Panin was staged and he became a model of President Putin.
Valery provides a number of circumstantial arguments in support of such a hypothesis, based on open sources. The actor's death
was widely reported in the Russian media, with press reports suggesting that Andrey Panin died in
unclear circumstances from head trauma or,
according to some of his friends, was murdered.
The Crimean video blogger reviews some photos and videos of Panin and Putin, noting similarities in gestures and physiology, and also noting that two types of photos of the actor are circulating on the Internet: "early", with a mole on his bald head, and "late", already without that mole, where it can be found on Putin's head.
It can be added that more than 10 years ago there
were widespread sets of "
Putin's look-alikes" in the Russian segment of the Internet, where photos of the president from various angles were divided into characteristic groups (among which the thin "Original", the chubby "Udmurt", the flaunting by his torso "Macho" and so on), but about 9 years ago this theme gradually subsided and sets with new photos stopped appearing and the president's image "stabilized". In addition, since some time, on the official website of the Kremlin, "laws signed by Putin" are
published without the signature itself, and a couple of years ago,
Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan published confirmation that at a meeting of CIS heads of states their leaders signed the agreement with a pen with blue ink by themselves, while the signature of the Russian President was printed on a letterhead in advance.
But two facts of Panin's creative biography, highlighted by the video blogger, are particularly noteworthy.
About 20 years ago, Andrei Panin starred in the feature film "
Kiss Not for the Press" in which he played the role of President Platov. The media noted many obvious parallels between the film's plot and Vladimir Putin's life before he was elected president (his Leningrad origins, his marriage to a stewardess, his work in the Russian-German Friendship Society, his work as an advisor to the governor, his constant tardiness and even the "completely accidental"
coincidence between the main character's name and the prototype's
operational pseudonym declassified much later). The film was shot in 23 days, but for some reason it was not released in distribution and was put out on DVD until five years later, at the very end of Putin's second presidential term. Meanwhile, as the
Delovoy Peterburg newspaper noted, the rumor was that the script was written by
Lyudmila Putina herself. It is also worth noting that Andrei Panin died on March 6, 2013cc and Putin announced his divorce exactly three months later -
on June 6 of the same year.
The second role of Andrei Panin noted by the video blogger is no less remarkable. In the film adaptation of the
novel by popular writer Victor Pelevin, "
Generation P", the actor played not just the Russian president, but a virtual model of the president. The plot of the film generally corresponds to the novel, but scenes have been added that are not in the book, above all, the entire storyline of the new president of Russia, whom the "Interbank Committee" "molded" from the driver Kolya, played by Panin.
Владимир Путин в Generation П (Теперь можно...)
by Виталий Фадеев on YouTube
It is possible, as the Crimean video blogger supposes, that having demonstrated his acting skills in these roles, Andrey Panin accepted an offer to become a permanent virtual model of the Russian president, abandoning his original identity, resulting in his staged death. But it is also possible that the actor's death was a kind of "revenge for roles played too well", as
previously suggested by
other internet publicists who drew attention to these episodes of Panin's creative biography.
In any case, computer modelling is actively used today in broadcasts of Vladimir Putin's speeches, and if not at the level of the character himself, then at least at the level of the scenery, as can be seen in the
official clips of the
President's New Year address:
"Snow on the railings" lay exactly the same as the year before (with no New Year snow in Moscow on that day, a couple of years ago) - the railing model was used the same.
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